True Detective S01e01 Quotes & Sayings

This period of dissipating novelty during which the cement and aggregate of life turns everything concrete. — Geoff Sturtevant

Nothing guarantees that reasonable people will agree about everything, of course, but the unreasonable are certain to be divided by their dogmas. It is time we recognized that this spirit of mutual inquiry, which is the foundation of all real science, is the very antithesis of religious faith. — Sam Harris

It was a thunderingly beautiful experience-voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell. — Kurt Vonnegut

Half a million dollars just to upgrade the car show I aint even detonate the bombs in the arsenal — Nicki Minaj

Space is space,life is life,everywhere is the same. But as for me, sustained by the toil of others, lacking civilized vices with which to fill my leisure, I pamper my melancholy and try to find in the vacuousness of the desert a special historical poignancy. Vain, idle, misguided! How fortunate that no one sees me! — J.M. Coetzee

I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings. — Isabelle Adjani

I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. The average man is a full human being with dampened and inhibited powers and capabilities. — Abraham Maslow

Tell a scoundrel, three or four times a day, that he is the pink of probity, and you make him at least the perfection of "respectability" in good earnest. On the other hand, accuse an honorable man, too petinaciously, of being a villain, and you fill him with a perverse ambition to show you that you are not altogether in the wrong. — Edgar Allan Poe

You must get used to doing with as little as you can. By wanting
less, you are content with less, and the less you need, the better
off you are. — Paul Auster

A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back. — Callan McAuliffe

For me, the two weeks between Christmas and Twelfth Night have come to be reserved for desultory reading. The pressure of the holiday is over, the weather outside is frightful, there are lots of leftovers to munch on, vacation hours are being used up. — Michael Dirda